In Connecticut, Cold Winters Mean ... Cold Summers

Six weeks ago, many parts of Connecticut still had snow on the ground.

But now we're sweating under the dome of a burgeoning "Bermuda High." Are warm summers common counterparts to cold winters?

No. Over the last 100-plus years, cold winters have been followed by cold summers, more often than not.

Of all the colder-than-average winters (the months of January, February and March) since 1905, 25 of the summers (June through August) that followed have been warmer than average and 32 have been colder than average.

Of all the warmer-than-average winters, 22 of the summers that followed have been colder than average and 31 have been warmer than average.

The average daily temperature for June, July and August has been 0.28 degrees below average when they followed colder winters and 0.30 degrees above average when they followed warmer winters.